Egg-shipping package.



. A. W. D. WEIS.

EGG sHlPPsNG PACKAGE.

APP ,l I6. Lsg Patented Feb.4,1919.

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EGG-SHIPPING PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. d, 1919.

Application led May 8, 1916. Serial No. 96,213.

To all wh om t may concern:

4 Be it known that I, ALWIN W. D. Wins, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg- Shipping Packages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the packing of eggs for shipment and storage; and has for its object to produce an improved package for such, and kindred, purposes, with a view to removing certain objections and disadvantages incident to packages now in common use.

The invention is fully disclosed in the description and claim following, references being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication, in which* Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating my improved package, a part of the packingcase cover being broken away to show thecontents of the case. Fig. 2 is a side view, a part of the side of the case being broken away, and the upper row of egg-cells being in section to show the eggs in position.

In the drawing I have illustrated a packing case of familiar construction adapted to hold thirty dozen eggs, and designated by the numeral 1. Cases of this size contain ten fillers 2, ve in each end. Between the fillers are placed divider boards 3, of strawboard, or the like, which in the simpler styles of packages are cut nearly as large as each compartment of the case, superiicially.

Straw, eXcelsior, or the like, is often placedV at the bottom of the case for a cushion, and Y on that the first divider and ller of the series, with a similar cushion under the cover.- The cushion herein shown is a formed cushion of corrugated paper, the bottom and top cushions being alike, and numbered 4. In Fig. 1 are shown the edges of side and end cushions 5, which are the principal features of this invention.

It will be understood that the main purpose of the side and end cushions is to protect the contents of the fillers against lateral shocks, -which tend to bend or break the narrow ends 6 of the filler strips. These ends are also easily bent or broken in the handling of the llers, and when broken o",

or bent around sidewise, they become useless in themselves, and instead of preserving a cushioning space between the outer filler strip and the inside of the case, allow said strip to lie against the inside of the case, and breakage of the contents is sure to follow. The side cushions have thus become a practical necessity, used.

The invention is very simple, and consists 1n providing side cushion strips 5 of practically the same w-idth as the filler strips, and as clearly shown in F ig. 2. These sidestrips are interposed between the dividerboards and rest on them, and serve as a part of the support for the board above. They thus help to stabilize and stiiienthe package as a whole from top to bottom.

A number of advantages are incident to this construction. One of these is convenience in packing. l/Vhen side cushions as wide as the depth of the case are used some considerable difficulty is experienced in inserting the illers, layer by layer. If the llers, with interposed dividers, be first placed in the case, and iilled, layer by layer, it is very dilicult, if not impossible to slip the corrugated cushions in place between the fillers and the sides of the case. On the other hand, when the llers and dividers are set in between the cushions, layer by layer, there is considerable diculty in placing the fillers, owing in part to the' inclination of the side cushions to swing inwardly at the top, and in part to the necessity for entering the projecting end of each 'iiller strip in its appropriate groove in the corrugated cushion sheet. As in the case of. the ordinary commercial egg-case filler there are twenty eight of these ends to be placed in their proper niches, it will be apparent that the operation is somewhat slow and calls for care and pathough not universally tience. But with the improved cushion strip example, the packer may have a stock of regular sized dividers and standard spaced fillers, many of which may be faulty in the matter mentioned above, the ends of the filler strips being broken or bent so as to be useless for protection at the sides; All such llers would be perfectly usable, however, in connection with side-cushions. But in order to use full-sheet cushions all dividers except the top and bottom in each case must be out down so as to drop into place between the cushions. With the improved cushion strips, on the other hand, he may use up his stock cleanly and completely, the

faulty fillers `being reinforced at thesides as fast as they appear, and on as many sides as may be necessary. The same would of course be true'in` the case'of fillers of extra light stock, even thoughl mixed with soundV and strong ones.

and easily, without Wastage, andv Without the necessity for re-cutting any part of his material.

rEhe package is designedmore particularly for egg shipment and storage, but is appli- The device thus enables the packer to pack his stuft' securely, quick-lyV cable to the shipment ofother commodities that are liable to break or bruise in transit, ich as fruit, glassware, Crockery, and the Having thus described my invention, l claim: Y

A shipping package, comprising acontainer, al plurality of cell-cases or fillers tting therein, top and bottom cushions therefor, dividers of slightly less, area than the insidezof the caseiandtsideacushioning strips of substantiallythe same depth as eachfillcr strip resting on said dividers,,the cushioning;`

strips beingflcorrugated to receive the end extensionsof the iller strips, and ormedto bulge inthe interspaces.'V

In testimony whereof I- aixlmy signature 40 in presenceof two-witnesses.

ALW'IN- W. Dz'W-EI-S Witnesses):

EMM@ Gp. SUFFIcooL, J. MLST. JOHN.

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